Easy Chocolate Pudding

With a mere 4 ingredients (dark chocolate, coconut milk, xylitol and coconut oil) this low glycemic chocolate pudding is the perfect gluten free treat for Valentine’s Day. I’m trying to keep my recipes as delicious and simple as possible and this dessert fits that bill. I hope you all enjoy it as much as my family did.

If you find yourself averse to using xylitol (and please don’t feed it to your dogs!) then feel free to experiment with this recipe and try using alternative sweeteners. Just be sure to leave a comment letting us know what you used and how it worked out.

Place chocolate chips in a food processor and pulse until coarsely chopped

In a medium pot, heat coconut milk, xylitol and coconut oil to a simmer

Pour coconut milk mixture into food processor

Process until smooth

Pour into 4 ounce mason jars and refrigerate overnight

Serve

I cannot take credit for the method in this recipe. Recently, I was going through a stack of gluten free magazines. I found a nice recipe for a Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free Chocolate Raspberry Pie in Living Without and decided to experiment with it. The result? This Easy Chocolate Pudding recipe. Sometimes my tinkering takes me in unexpected directions. I set out to make pie and end up with pudding –that is the fun of the process.

When I was a little girl, my mom and dad used to pack canned Del Monte chocolate pudding in my lunch. I loved it. This brings back those school lunch memories without all of the sugar and processed chemicals.

Elana,, this is SUPER! I made it tonight, using Julian Bakery Paleo Chocolate Bars, and subbing Coconut Sugar for the xylitol, and Avocado Oil for the Coconut Oil. It came out fantastic. Made two batches, adding Chia Seeds and Cinnamon to make Mexican Chocolate Tapioca Pudding, and the second batch as Chocolate Pudding Ice Pops (without the Chia and Cinnamon). I did also add Vanilla Extract to both versions. I’m not fully Paleo right now, but working my way back there again. So delicious, both versions. Thank you for sharing your creative cooking genius with us!

Loving the recipes. Thank you! We are newly grain free and I am sadly nut free as well. This recipe came up as a nut free recipe. Coconut is in the recipe, a nut. Just so you know those who nut free can’t have coconut. Sorry if someone else has already said this.

While many people use xylitol, a sugar alcohol, personally, I do not considered Xylitol as a safe or natural substitute for those with diabetes. It is very toxic for dogs, and I notice an immediate drop in my blood sugar when I use it and feel sick for hours and hours after ingesting it. It is sourced from many foods, but primarily birch and corn. Your readers may wish to make sure of their source if following a strict Paleo regimen or sub the sweetener.

I made this with baking chocolate and coconut butter instead of coconut oil. (I can never get the lid off my jar of coconut oil. Anyone else run into that?)

After it set, the result was this absolutely delicious, totally decadent silky dark chocolate butter. It was nothing like pudding, more like buttercream. Very rich, of course, and a small portion goes a long way. It would be great to fill gougieres with, or between cake layers, or for filling strawberries.

Thank you Victoria!! I was just telling my husband how disappointed I was that some of these recipes call for ingredients with sugar in them, because we can’t have sugar. Yay! Now I can make chocolate pudding!

This is easy and delicious! My husband LOVES dark chocolate and I made it for his birthday almost a year ago…it’s been a hit ever since (baby showers, potlucks etc etc).
If you have a VITAMIX there is no need to heat up the chocolate…throw everything in and leave for a few minutes until it heats up. Delicious every time!

Go to bodyecology.com . They have a great natural sweetener called lakanto that is granular and used for baking. They also have the best liquid stevia on the market !!! I have a problem with candida and these both work great for me!

I just made your Paleo Shepherd’s Pie last night and it was yummy. Thank you for the recipe. It is so difficult to find “casserole” type recipes without dairy, grains, and tomatoes. I too shall use this as a quick lunch. I am going to freeze some to see how it keeps, it would be great to have something to pull from the freezer. Thank you again!

Hi Elana
This is the first time I’ve come across your website. I love your recipes … they really motivate me to try some new things! (I have lots of food intolerances including gluten, dairy and eggs, so baking is not easy!)

I just wanted to share with you …

I wanted to try your pudding, but didn’t have the ingredients, so I just mashed up a banana, added about 1 to 2 tablespoons of coconut milk and 2 tablespoons of carob powder with a bit of vanilla extract. Put it in the freezer for about a half hour to firm up and it was amazing! (Next time I will leave in longer and see if I can use it as an ice cream substitute.) Very sweet even though I put no sweetener in it! I would never have thought to do this if I hadn’t seen your recipes!

Recently I have experimented with making a”pudding” of sorts.Just put chia seeds,unsweetened almond milk,stevia& a dash of cardamon in a jar.Shake it up& let the chia seeds thicken up in the almond milk.Kind of tastes like tapioca & is so good for you!

I made it with organic demerara sugar instead and heated the chocolate and the coconut milk altogether in my thermomix. It didn’t set however, or hasn’t about 4 hrs after being in the fridge…. It also has a funny little skin of coconut fat ontop of it with a kind of crunchiness to it…. any ideas??

Hi,
I made this amazing recipe for Valentine’s Day. However, it never set up! My husband daughter and I happily drank it and it was so good, but I would love to make it again and eat it for pudding. Any suggestions from anyone?
Thanks,
Jami

I made this with Enjoy Life! allergy free chocolate chips and a scant 1/4 cup of coconut sugar, my 10 and 14 year old boys loved it as a Valentine’s day treat. I sent homemade “pudding cups” in their lunch today! Thank you Elana for helping me make my “allergy” kids feel loved and normal.

Thank you Elana! I made this for Valentine’s Day today and didn’t realize it needed to set in the fridge overnight. So, I put it in the freezer for about 3 hours and it came out like a delicious coconut flavored chocolate ice cream!!! I had been wanting to find a way to make my own ice cream with coconut milk and now I have it :) By the way, didn’t have xylitol, so I used about 1/2 the amount of Truvia.

An even simpler version…Yum! I made this yesterday and because I feel like out organic dark chocolate chips are plenty sweet, and I’m not a fan of artificial sweeteners, I skipped adding a sweetener all together. This came out fabulously smooth, creamy and plenty sweet for us. I will definitely make it again

Thank you, Elana, for this delicious treat idea. I’m not sure how all the coconut in this will affect me, but, ohhhh, I’m so hoping it won’t be a big deal because I LOVE it.
I did make a few adjustments: 1/4 c. honey instead of xylitol, 1/8 tsp. vanilla, and a few shakes of salt.
I’m hoping it will set up to a consistency I can use as a dip for small plates of fresh fruit.

FYI – if you ever liked tapioca pudding as a kid – add chia seeds! They soften and swell and it tasted just like chocolate tapioca pudding and it was wonderful! (actually TOO good – I could have eaten the whole batch…)

thank you so much for this amazing recipe. I took it as dessert to friends dinner party tonight it was SUCH a hit. They could not believe how healthy it was as well. I tell everyone about your blog. I just love it. I hope you are well and happy and healthy so you can continue keep up the great work and keeping the world healthier and happier.

This is very similar to my hot chocolate recipe. So I expect it would be fabulous and delicious.
I wrote about your fabulous chocolate cupcake recipe that I made with coconut whip cream. It was soo good. Thanks so much.
If you have a moment please check it out.

Elana, just wanted to say how much I appreciate your site, and all the great recipes. My youngest son and I are new to a grain free, dairy free diet (although I have been gluten free for years). When we first began a few weeks ago I felt completely overwhelmed and had resigned myself to meat and salad for all three meals. But what to feed a two year old? Never mind his older brother and sister, since he wants to eat everything they have. A friend told me about your site and I’ve been using it daily for recipes and inspiration for creating my own.
Thanks so much!

Thank you Elana for a wonderful simple recipe. I just made it. It was way to sweet for my taste using 1/4 cup of xylitol. I then added another can of coconut milk, a Tbs of coconut oil, and a tsp and a half of unsweetened cacao powder. And it tastes great!

I recently tried CCK’s Chocolate Brownie Batter and tweaked it for my taste buds. I added chia seed, let it set up, and processed it again and added some coffee because it needed more liquid and I thought, “why not?”. Putting it in the Vitamix makes it super smooth. The coffee gave it a little extra something that was yummy.

Point? I have been following a bit more of a Paleo diet and by introducing beans, which the ‘brownie batter’ recipe called for, I’ve found they aren’t working for my body as a substitute for other ingredients. I’m glad to have this recipe as an alternative. I’ll make it as-is and then make a separate batch and play with it by adding added chia, coffee and coconut sugar to see what the difference might be.

I’m to bring dessert for Saturday dinner at a friend’s…I hadn’t decided what to bring…until now. Thanks Elana!

Love the short mason jar presentation….now where do i get some like
these? This recipe needed for us a thickner for the ‘pudding’ effect.
I used the cornstarch, but then later decided perhaps a vegan plant
gelatin would have worked. Anyone have ideas out there?

i love using xylitol. it has better flavor (to me) than erythritol but is not as hard on the tummy as maltitol. eaten in normal quantities it causes me no digestive issues. i find that i do not like xylitol when baked with chocolate. (brownies, cake, etc)???? no idea why. however, i love it in a ‘no bake’ or in a baked-cold dessert such as cheesecake. it can have a ‘cooling effect’ on the tongue, so putting it in a cold dessert hides that completely. thank you for using this sweetener!!!! xylitol, erythritol and palm sugar have been my 3 lifesavers since starting this low carb journey;)))!!!!!! palm sugar is a once in a while treat for me, so having recipes that use the xylitol is perfect!!!

Okay, I tried it with coconut sugar, using the same amount, and it was absolutely gorgeous. Hubby didn’t like it (he’s not a fan of coconut) but my 6 year old son did and it’s great to have found such a healthy, easy alternative to our normal Angel Delight. That’s always been my favourite blancmange-type pudding until now, but I think this has passed it! :-)

I wasn’t aware of the fact that xylitol is corn-based. I was going to suggest erythritol, also an alcohol sugar (don’t know its source). Erythritol doesn’t cause bloating or bowel effects. Its grains are hard to dissolve, so I make it into powder in small batches in my blender. The flavor is the most like sugar that I’ve tasted, of artificial sweeteners.

I love the photo. I didn’t have any xyletol. I think I spelled that wrong. I used a mixture of stevia and sugar and used too much I think. It’s very liquidy… not solid. Is it supposed to be? I’m not sure I did this one right…

I haven’t updated anything on this post. All of the ingredients are showing up just fine in all of my browsers. Please let me know if you are having trouble in viewing this recipe. I am trying to figure out what the source of this trouble may be.

Elana, I love your web site and the recipes are so creative. I really do wish you had nutritional information for your recipes. I’m trying to limit my carbohydrate intake and it would be so nice if you broke it down. Please keep up the amazing work you do.

I am confused by the ingredients list. 1/4 cup 1 tablespoon coconut oil. Should there be an “and” in there. And do you measure it in solid or liquid form, because there’s a difference in volume. Also, how much xylitol?

Hi Joelle–The brand Elana links to (The Ultimate Sweetener) is derived from birch trees, so it should be free of corn. There may be other brands out there too, but this one I know of. You may try searching for “birch sugar” too.

I love recipes with just a few ingredients – they are easy to throw together and they are just so simple. I feel better about eating foods that have not been quite so processed, even in my own kitchen!

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